Press releases in 2004

The report reveals that the government is applying weaker controls to the export of components, compared to the export of full weapons systems. These double standards allow British-sold weapons...

In a letter sent last week to U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Amnesty International, Human Rights First (formerly the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights) and Human Rights Watch protested...

An Amnesty International report released earlier this month, based on analysis of the Home Office's own refusal letters to asylum seekers, exposed asylum decisions based on inaccurate and out-of-date...

The human rights organisation also warned that the UK was effectively giving a green light to torturers by potentially relying on evidence extracted under torture. Amnesty International UK Media...

A representative of the Centre for Legal Resources , a Romanian non-governmental organisation, visited the hospital on 20 February and established that 17 patients had died in 2004, apparently from...

Guns and Policing: Standards to prevent misuse focuses on what governments should be doing to control the use of guns by their police forces. The report has been written by Amnesty International for...

Amnesty International UK Media Director Lesley Warner said: 'A number of rebel leaders have abysmal human rights records, raising serious concern about levels of violence, as well as the humanitarian...

Speaking after her visit yesterday (Thursday 19 February 2004) to the Mansfield Correctional Facility in Ohio, Kate Allen said: 'It was crucial for me to come to Ohio to see Kenny Richey and the state...

The whereabouts of the 28 are not known, but they are believed to be held in one of Eritrea's many secret detention centres. The Eritrean authorities have not publicly acknowledged the arrests or...

Mahasin Abaker was 14 years old and nine months pregnant when she was sentenced to 100 lashes at a court in Nyala, South Darfur on May 17 2003. Her final appeal was heard by the Supreme Court in...